Patrick O'Brian (given name: Richard
Patrick Russ, 1914 - 2000) was the author of twenty books (and
three chapters) detailing the naval and terrestrial exploits of
Captain Jack Aubrey and Doctor Stephen Maturin, in a period from
1801 to 1815.

"For the right deep swimming in a book, give
me the sea..." Stephen Maturin, The Yellow Admiral